Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Answer guide : Answers should show an understanding that assets are used up over time and that this fact is not reflected merely by stating an asset at cost . |
| 2 | A new Expert book has been brought out in time for Christmas . |
| 3 | Outstanding incompatibilities not resolved by the ABI — and there is little doubt that different look and feels will still prevail — are to be addressed by a streamlined porting environment that can be whittled down over time as more features are incorporated into the ABI . |
| 4 | Nigel got most of the estate , but would be more than a little embarrassed by estate duty ; and provision for Jacqui and her baby would be sorted out in time . |
| 5 | Rangers ' pitch will now be lifted at the earliest opportunity and a new one laid in its place , so long as the work can be carried out in time for the new season . |
| 6 | But since the replicase is just a protein molecule like any other , the versatile protein-building machines of the bacterial cell can easily turn to building them , just as the machine tools in a car factory can quickly be turned over in time of war to making munitions : all they need is to be fed the right blueprints . |
| 7 | Investors in soon-to-mature MTNs could be first in line for payment if the deal with GE Capital can be pushed through in time . |
| 8 | These sites were special and , despite the noise of an adjacent bus station and wailing loudspeaker from a nearby Moslem minaret , it was easy to be whisked back in time and imagine the scene many years ago . |
| 9 | Mr Heseltine has been forced to pull out of a Birmingham conference on global technology today as a contingency to allow the final details to be tied up in time for presentation to the Cabinet . |
| 10 | It supports the principle of increasing energy prices so that consumers pay the full environmental cost of the resources they use , although it acknowledges that increases would have to be phased in over time , preferably in line with international agreements . |
| 11 | Hoops used to be brought out from time to time , to become a craze , then be forgotten again . |
| 12 | A week in a one-star hotel in Madrid can be set up by Time Off ( 01-235 8070 ) for £227pp , with an optional day tour to Toledo for £26 or to Avila and Segovia for £33 . |
| 13 | UN information sources reported in November that a new Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab region and Europe ( CEDARE ) , proposed by UNDP 's regional Bureau for Arab States and Europe , was expected to be set up in time for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development . |
| 14 | Opposition Members have said that the council tax is too complex and difficult to be rushed through in time for 1 April 1993 . |
| 15 | I 'm , I 'm run out of time now |
| 16 | We hope the branches and members w w will believe those reports because they will be the truth , and not some of the more highly coloured statements which I 'm sure will be put around from time to time . |
| 17 | Corrected stock will be sent out in time for a new publication date . |
| 18 | The Brady Plan ( devised by Nicholas Brady the US Treasury Secretary ) suggests that owed money could be reduced , and the remainder made into a more realistic secure loan that would be paid back in time . |
| 19 | Perhaps the edges have indeed been knocked off with time and retelling , but the essential humour remains . |
| 20 | They were closed down from time to time and checked the day prior to our morning operation . |
| 21 | It may have been the combination of the early hour and a squeamish stomach , but during the whole of our short stay on the island I had a most peculiar feeling of being transported back through time to another age . |
| 22 | They were handed in on time , handed in on time . |
| 23 | Research programmes were being stretched out in time and slowed down , and experiments were having to be cancelled as priorities were reassessed . |
| 24 | Hanging back as he strode off to get it , she protested worriedly , ‘ I really think it might be best not to — and I do n't know quite how it is , but although you all seem to move without speed , not to hurry , I feel as though I 'm being rushed along without time to draw breath ! ’ |
| 25 | In the thirteenth century , itinerant royal justices were sent out from time to time with a list of enquiries to put to local communities . |
| 26 | They were sent down on time I think were n't they ? |
| 27 | The Terminator has been sent back in time from a future world dominated by machines to assassinate Sarah ( Linda Hamilton from TV 's Beauty and the Beast ) . |
| 28 | Secondly , if the company is insolvent when the charge is registered out of time , it is vulnerable to challenge by the administrator or the liquidator . |
| 29 | Despite what the EAT in the Sen case go on to say about the Riley decision , it is submitted that it was an established rule of law as a result of that and other decisions that where an applicant instructs solicitors or advisors to act on his/her behalf and through their default the claim is presented out of time , the tribunal would not have exercised their discretion to allow the claim in . |
| 30 | Make sure the essay is handed in on time . |